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Unsupervised graph alignment aims to find the node correspondence across different graphs without any anchor node pairs. Despite the recent efforts utilizing deep learning-based techniques, such as the embedding and optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Songyang Chen , Youfang Lin , Yu Liu , Shuai Zheng , Lei Zou

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful geometric and probabilistic tool for finding correspondences and measuring similarity between two distributions. Yet, its original formulation relies on the existence of a cost function between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-09 Ievgen Redko , Titouan Vayer , Rémi Flamary , Nicolas Courty

The ability to measure similarity between documents enables intelligent summarization and analysis of large corpora. Past distances between documents suffer from either an inability to incorporate semantic similarities between words or from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Mikhail Yurochkin , Sebastian Claici , Edward Chien , Farzaneh Mirzazadeh , Justin Solomon

Accurate segmentation of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images is crucial for diagnosing and monitoring retinal diseases. However, the labor-intensive nature of pixel-level annotation limits the scalability of supervised learning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jiaqi Yang , Nitish Mehta , Xiaoling Hu , Chao Chen , Chia-Ling Tsai

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been immensely successful in many high-level computer vision tasks given large labeled datasets. However, for video semantic object segmentation, a domain where labels are scarce, effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Huiling Wang , Tapani Raiko , Lasse Lensu , Tinghuai Wang , Juha Karhunen

Most existing methods in vision-language retrieval match two modalities by either comparing their global feature vectors which misses sufficient information and lacks interpretability, detecting objects in images or videos and aligning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xiaohan Zou , Changqiao Wu , Lele Cheng , Zhongyuan Wang

Cross-lingual transfer of word embeddings aims to establish the semantic mappings among words in different languages by learning the transformation functions over the corresponding word embedding spaces. Successfully solving this problem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Ruochen Xu , Yiming Yang , Naoki Otani , Yuexin Wu

In recent years, object detection has shown impressive results using supervised deep learning, but it remains challenging in a cross-domain environment. The variations of illumination, style, scale, and appearance in different domains can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Rongchang Xie , Fei Yu , Jiachao Wang , Yizhou Wang , Li Zhang

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is a task of central importance in the field of document image understanding. State-of-the-art methods for HTR require the use of extensive annotated sets for training, making them impractical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Petros Georgoulas Wraight , Giorgos Sfikas , Ioannis Kordonis , Petros Maragos , George Retsinas

We propose a novel method that tackles the problem of unsupervised domain adaptation for semantic segmentation by maximizing the cosine similarity between the source and the target domain at the feature level. A segmentation network mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Inseop Chung , Daesik Kim , Nojun Kwak

Existing domain adaptation (DA) and generalization (DG) methods in object detection enforce feature alignment in the visual space but face challenges like object appearance variability and scene complexity, which make it difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Sina Malakouti , Adriana Kovashka

Regularized optimal transport (OT) is now increasingly used as a loss or as a matching layer in neural networks. Entropy-regularized OT can be computed using the Sinkhorn algorithm but it leads to fully-dense transportation plans, meaning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-17 Tianlin Liu , Joan Puigcerver , Mathieu Blondel

Semantic parsing over multiple knowledge bases enables a parser to exploit structural similarities of programs across the multiple domains. However, the fundamental challenge lies in obtaining high-quality annotations of (utterance,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Priyanka Agrawal , Parag Jain , Ayushi Dalmia , Abhishek Bansal , Ashish Mittal , Karthik Sankaranarayanan

Weakly supervised point cloud semantic segmentation methods that require 1\% or fewer labels, hoping to realize almost the same performance as fully supervised approaches, which recently, have attracted extensive research attention. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Tianfang Sun , Zhizhong Zhang , Xin Tan , Yanyun Qu , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging task that has been deeply studied in recent years. Most of the common solutions exploit class activation map (CAM) to locate object regions. However, such response maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Yukun Su , Jingliang Deng , Zonghan Li

Textual grounding, i.e., linking words to objects in images, is a challenging but important task for robotics and human-computer interaction. Existing techniques benefit from recent progress in deep learning and generally formulate the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Raymond A. Yeh , Minh N. Do , Alexander G. Schwing

This paper addresses the challenge of fine-grained alignment in Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks, where robots navigate realistic 3D environments based on natural language instructions. Current approaches use contrastive learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yuhang Song , Mario Gianni , Chenguang Yang , Kunyang Lin , Te-Chuan Chiu , Anh Nguyen , Chun-Yi Lee

Visual grounding (VG) aims to establish fine-grained alignment between vision and language. Ideally, it can be a testbed for vision-and-language models to evaluate their understanding of the images and texts and their reasoning abilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Zhihong Chen , Ruifei Zhang , Yibing Song , Xiang Wan , Guanbin Li

Cross-domain object detection has recently attracted more and more attention for real-world applications, since it helps build robust detectors adapting well to new environments. In this work, we propose an end-to-end solution based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Minghao Fu , Zhenshan Xie , Wen Li , Lixin Duan

In this paper, we address the problem of unsupervised Domain Adaptation. The need for such an adaptation arises when the distribution of the target data differs from that which is used to develop the model and the ground truth information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Siddharth Roheda , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim